The Long Tail: Cross-Channel Migrant Smuggling (France to the UK) | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
On the 1st May 2024, 711 migrants successfully crossed the Channel between France and the UK in small boats. This year is so far on track to see the highest number of crossings on record.This highly i...
21 Maj 202454min
LockBit: Is this the end? | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
LockBit, the world's largest ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider suffered a very public takedown by an international law enforcement task force, Operation Cronos.The ransomware behemoth quickly re...
26 Mars 202434min
Russia, War & Organized Crime | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
Russian organized crime has a mythology attached to it - the brutal tattooed men of the Vory v Zakone. But those days are long in the past, rapid globalisation saw a new type of organized criminal tak...
4 Mars 202446min
What is going on in Ecuador? | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
At the start of the year masked gunman burst into a television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The cameras were live and the entire event was broadcast. The video shows gang members shouting at staff, p...
5 Feb 202428min
Monitoring: Ovidio Guzmán and the Kingpin Strategy | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
'The King is dead, long live the King!'In September 2023, Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, stood in a courtroom as a series of charges were laid out, including his alleged ro...
4 Dec 202320min
Illicit Financial Flows in the Western Balkans | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
“If you can do it without consequences, then you should do it”.What are illicit Financial Flows, or IFFs? And why do they matter? Every illicit market, from drug trafficking, people smuggling, the ill...
14 Nov 202341min
Monitoring: A Month of Drug Seizures | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
In September 2023, there were four large cocaine seizures in and around the Atlantic Ocean - off the coast of Ireland, West Africa, Brazil, and Cape Verde. The flows of cocaine that traverse the Atlan...
17 Okt 202312min
“They don’t ******* withdraw it” - Scam Call Centres in Ukraine | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
Scam call centres are a blight on the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to have any dealings with them. They come to you with promises of a short cut to wealth, to fix a non-existent issue with your ...
2 Okt 202340min
